The version of the language they spoke, known as Koine Greek, was based on the dialect of Athens.
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Koine
//ˈkɔɪneɪ//
Synonyms for "koine" (8 found)
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46 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Κοινή name (common Greek language)
Armenian
1 entries- կոյնե name (common Greek language)
Catalan
3 entries- grec koiné name (common Greek language)
- koiné name (common Greek language)
- koiné noun (lingua franca)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 共同語 /共同语 noun (regional language that becomes standard)
Czech
1 entries- koiné name (common Greek language)
Danish
4 entries- koine name (common Greek language)
- koine noun (regional language that becomes standard)
- koine noun (lingua franca)
- koinesprog noun (regional language that becomes standard)
Dutch
1 entries- Koinè name (common Greek language)
Esperanto
1 entries- kojneo name (common Greek language)
Estonian
1 entries- koinee name (common Greek language)
Finnish
1 entries- koinee name (common Greek language)
French
1 entries- koinè name (common Greek language)
German
2 entries- Koine name (common Greek language)
- Koine noun (regional language that becomes standard)
Greek
1 entries- Ελληνιστική Κοινή name (common Greek language)
Hungarian
1 entries- koiné name (common Greek language)
Italian
1 entries- koinè name (common Greek language)
Japanese
1 entries- コイネー name (common Greek language)
Korean
2 entries- 공통 그리스어 name (common Greek language)
- 코이네 그리스어 name (common Greek language)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- koiné name (common Greek language)
- koinéspråk noun (regional language that becomes standard)
- koinéspråk noun (lingua franca)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- koiné name (common Greek language)
- koinéspråk noun (regional language that becomes standard)
- koinéspråk noun (lingua franca)
Persian
1 entries- یونانی کوینه name (common Greek language)
Polish
1 entries- koine noun (regional language that becomes standard)
Portuguese
4 entries- coiné name (common Greek language)
- koine name (common Greek language)
- koiné name (common Greek language)
- koiné noun (regional language that becomes standard)
Romanian
1 entries- koine name (common Greek language)
Russian
1 entries- койне́ name (common Greek language)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- koinȇ name (common Greek language)
- коине̑ name (common Greek language)
Spanish
4 entries- coiné name (common Greek language)
- koiné name (common Greek language)
- koiné noun (regional language that becomes standard)
- koiné noun (lingua franca)
Swedish
1 entries- koine name (common Greek language)
Sample sentences
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If a dominant language was spoken in the area of such trade routes, then this dominant language became the ‘interlanguage’, as it is called. Such an interlanguage, or koiné, is a simplified dialect with which speakers of two or more quite different dialects communicate with one another.
Source: wiktionary
Now, another term for that product is koine, which, however, I have regularly […] employed in reference to the infrastructure (procedural, juridical, formal, cultural) that enables and informs composition of a lingua franca. […] In linguistic scholarship koine mostly (!) refers to a standard language expanded by input from several dialectal sources with concomitant levelling of morphological and syntactic differences and adoption of a general and possibly restricted lexicon.
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